As part of our UfoliO project, our team was accepted into the Inter/National Coalition for Electronic Portfolio Research as part of Cohort V. Our Cohort project spans 2008-11. We met with the Cohort in Denver this summer and focused on clarifying our research question and our research plan. Since then, our project has stalled a bit but we are about to get back on track. For my part of the project, I have been interested in whether digital learning environments, like our UfoliO WordPress Multiuser platform, can enhance the learning of professional skills (collaboration, professional communication) across the curriculum. The research question at present is:
Does an experiential learning approach, deployed through a digital Personal Learning Environment framework, facilitate and enhance the learning and practice of professional skills across a curriculum?
We are now designing the research framework which will be applied to a cohort of 35 Business Honors students who began their program in the Fall of 2009.
